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Legal Issue! Stefanik on Ukraine. Her life after loved ones were struck down. DiLo’s Donuts buys a building. Crystal Gayle, country icon, at Wood Aug. 29. Ice Castles’ ice rink did major damage to park. Elderwood in North Creek in peril; risk to 57 residents, 97 jobs. Schermerhorn Bloody Pond Road residences expects 5/14 OK. LGPC and LGA fire volleys on ProcellaCOR. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the

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Sagamore plans 3 bldgs.: Employee housing, resort, apartments & retail

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Glens Falls

The Sagamore Resort plans three new projects in Bolton Landing on property already owned by the Sagamore.

• On-site seasonal employee housing, 53 units with two beds each in a three-story dormitory-style building at the center of the main Sagamore’s Green Island property. Kitchens and lounges on each floor.

• A two-story mixed use building on Lake Shore Drive, in downtown Bolton, in the …

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Washington Co. Sheriff’s new simulator lets officers practice realistic gun situations

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has a new piece of technology that helps its officers train like never before.

The Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives Range Pro Interactive Force Simulator, acquired in February, can virtually put officers in thousands of scenarios they might encounter in their job, so they can practice reacting to situations.

Some of the situations are very dangerous, like responding to an …

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Touts chestnuts as food source of great potential; says local farms can grow trees

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Russell Wallack has a mission — “to build the organic chestnut industry to a watershed scale in the Northeast.”

Breadtree Farms LLC, created by Mr. Wallack in 2019 in Greenwich, just received a $1,957,328 USDA Organic Market Development grant toward establishing a $2,777,000 chestnut facility at the former Atwater Farm in Salem.

The chestnut trees are already being grown in Greenwich and Granville.

Breadtree …

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Boralex seeks 750-acre solar energy facility in Fort Edward

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Quebec-based Boralex, whose U.S. headquarters are in South Glens Falls, held an open house Thursday, April 18, at the Durkeetown Church in Fort Edward to allow the public to gather information about its proposed 100 MW photovoltaic solar energy generation facility.
The open house was well attended,

The solar project would be built on 750 acres in rural Fort Edward bounded on the north …

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